_August 21 – Fashion: Style and Substance
Objects denoted with a dagger (†) appear in Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity. Objects denoted with an asterisk (*) are part of the Art Institute's collection and link directly to the museum's Collections page. To create, save, and share your own collection of selected artworks using My Collections, a free online feature, please visit the About My Collections page.
Introduction
Caillebotte, Paris Street: Rainy Day, 1877†*
Manet, La Parisienne (Study of Ellen Andrée), c. 1875†
Representing Fashion in Art
Bronzino, Eleonora of Toledo and Her Son Giovanni, 1545
Van Dyck, Lord John Stuard and Lord Bernard Stuart, c. 1638
Winterhalter, Countess Rimskaia-Korsakova, 1858
Rosalba Carriera, Young Woman with a Parrot, c. 1730*
Charles-Antoine Coypel, Philippe Coypel and His Wife, 1742*
Fashion in the 19th Century
Desoria, Portrait of Constance Piplet, 1797†
Dighton, Beau Brummell, c. 1805
Cézanne, The Promenade, 1871†
Toilettes by Madame Fladry, from La mode illustrée, 1871†
Monet, Women in a Garden, 1866†
Héloïse Colin Leloir, Fashion Plate, 1863
The Development of the Crinoline
Winterhalter, Empress Eugénie and Her Ladies in Waiting, 1855
Fashion Plate from Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1824
Achille Dévéria, Noon, from The Times of Day, 1831
Ingres, Madame d’Hausonville, 1845
Madame Moitessier, 1851
Winterhalter, Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, 1865
Boudin, Approaching Storm, 1864†*
The Rise of the Couturier
Nadar, Charles Frederick Worth, 1895
Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, 1640
Winterhalter, Empress Eugénie, 1857
Vigée-Lebrun, Marie Antoinette, 1783
From Crinoline to Bustle
Stevens, Hesitation (Portrait of Mme. Morteaux?), c. 1867†*
Renoir, The Couple, 1868†
Moreau the Younger, The Monument of Costume: The Meeting at Marly, c. 1777
Morisot, On the Balcony (On the Terrace, Meudon), 1871-72†*
Woman and Child on a Terrance (On a Balcony), 1872†
Béraud, A Ball, 1878†
Men’s Fashion
Degas, Portraits at the Stock Exchange, 1878-79†
Whistler, The Artist in His Studio, 1865-66*
Sarony, Oscar Wilde, 1882
Boldini, Robert de Montesquiou, 1897
Whistler, Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fesenzac, 1891-92
Shaping Women’s Bodies
Renoir, The Loge, 1874†
Caillebotte, Paris Street: Rainy Day, 1877†*
Manet, Before the Mirror, 1876†
Worcester Corset Company, Corset, c. 1880†
Lerolle, The Rehearsal in the Choir Loft, c. 1885†
Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte–1884, 1884-86†*
Epilogue: Fashion in Art After Impressionism
Glackens, At Moquin’s, 1905*
Van Dongen, Femme au fond blanc [Woman Against a White Background,] 1910/14*
Brooks, Self-Portrait, 1923
Avedon, Renée, Place de la Concorde, Paris, August, 1947
Additional Resources:
Objects denoted with a dagger (†) appear in Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity. Objects denoted with an asterisk (*) are part of the Art Institute's collection and link directly to the museum's Collections page. To create, save, and share your own collection of selected artworks using My Collections, a free online feature, please visit the About My Collections page.
Introduction
Caillebotte, Paris Street: Rainy Day, 1877†*
Manet, La Parisienne (Study of Ellen Andrée), c. 1875†
Representing Fashion in Art
Bronzino, Eleonora of Toledo and Her Son Giovanni, 1545
Van Dyck, Lord John Stuard and Lord Bernard Stuart, c. 1638
Winterhalter, Countess Rimskaia-Korsakova, 1858
Rosalba Carriera, Young Woman with a Parrot, c. 1730*
Charles-Antoine Coypel, Philippe Coypel and His Wife, 1742*
Fashion in the 19th Century
Desoria, Portrait of Constance Piplet, 1797†
Dighton, Beau Brummell, c. 1805
Cézanne, The Promenade, 1871†
Toilettes by Madame Fladry, from La mode illustrée, 1871†
Monet, Women in a Garden, 1866†
Héloïse Colin Leloir, Fashion Plate, 1863
The Development of the Crinoline
Winterhalter, Empress Eugénie and Her Ladies in Waiting, 1855
Fashion Plate from Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1824
Achille Dévéria, Noon, from The Times of Day, 1831
Ingres, Madame d’Hausonville, 1845
Madame Moitessier, 1851
Winterhalter, Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, 1865
Boudin, Approaching Storm, 1864†*
The Rise of the Couturier
Nadar, Charles Frederick Worth, 1895
Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, 1640
Winterhalter, Empress Eugénie, 1857
Vigée-Lebrun, Marie Antoinette, 1783
From Crinoline to Bustle
Stevens, Hesitation (Portrait of Mme. Morteaux?), c. 1867†*
Renoir, The Couple, 1868†
Moreau the Younger, The Monument of Costume: The Meeting at Marly, c. 1777
Morisot, On the Balcony (On the Terrace, Meudon), 1871-72†*
Woman and Child on a Terrance (On a Balcony), 1872†
Béraud, A Ball, 1878†
Men’s Fashion
Degas, Portraits at the Stock Exchange, 1878-79†
Whistler, The Artist in His Studio, 1865-66*
Sarony, Oscar Wilde, 1882
Boldini, Robert de Montesquiou, 1897
Whistler, Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fesenzac, 1891-92
Shaping Women’s Bodies
Renoir, The Loge, 1874†
Caillebotte, Paris Street: Rainy Day, 1877†*
Manet, Before the Mirror, 1876†
Worcester Corset Company, Corset, c. 1880†
Lerolle, The Rehearsal in the Choir Loft, c. 1885†
Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte–1884, 1884-86†*
Epilogue: Fashion in Art After Impressionism
Glackens, At Moquin’s, 1905*
Van Dongen, Femme au fond blanc [Woman Against a White Background,] 1910/14*
Brooks, Self-Portrait, 1923
Avedon, Renée, Place de la Concorde, Paris, August, 1947
Additional Resources:
- Art Institute of Chicago, Impressionism, Fashion & Modernity, catalog edited by Gloria Groom, Chicago, 2012
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Age of French Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, Gloria Groom & Douglas Druick, Chicago, 2010
- Art Institute of Chicago, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2000
- Art Access: Impressionist & Post-Impressionist Art
- Seurat & the Making of La Grande Jatte
- French Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (app)